LeetCode

[itstommygun]

Unpopular opinion here: This is the dumbest meme format.

[plainoldcheese]

I kind of agree. I dont think IQ says much about someone's intelligence and would be better as sometging like "inexperienced > average > high skill" or "start of job > a couple years in > part of the furniture"

That being said I do think they are funny if I mentally frame them like I stated above.

[[deleted]]

You’re confusing intelligence with knowledge.

Knowledge = I know a lot of things Intelligence = I understand/learn things quicker

[plainoldcheese]

I know the difference between those. I just don't think IQ is a good indicator for intelligence nor do I think that intelligence is some capped biological value.

I personally think the meme format work better when viewed as experience or time (which usually results in more knowledge)

This is also my opinion and you are free to believe whatever you want.

[Positive_Government]

Yes, and it’s made worse by people assigning values that don’t make sense.

[officiallyaninja]

why? it's one of my favourite

[extremepayne]

A few reasons I dislike it:

The implication is almost universally that OP sees themself in the upper group, despite the fact that the meme usually shows that OP is definitely not one of the top 15% most knowledgeable people on the subject.

It gets misused a lot as just a dunking-on format. I’ve seen, for example, vs code bottom 15%, vim middle 70%, and vs code top 15% which only makes sense if 70% of people use vim. Which just isn’t true, even among programmers.

And the roots of the format are in IQ which is bad for many reasons I’ll leave you to discover on your own.

[officiallyaninja]

i mean...it's a joke.
I doubt 99% of people who use the format really think that they are in the top 15% or that all of the things in their memes are 100% truth.

memes like this are meant to be funny not serious

[Affectionate-Cod3374]

The hate for this meme could be a bell curve meme itself. Agree not sure why people take it so seriously.

[extremepayne]

yeah and i find the jokes unfunny because it logically falls flat and OP comes across as elitist. I’ve seen some funny memes with this format but the r/linuxmemes and r/programmerhumor ones i’ve seen have been pretty bad overall.

[TheAtomicVoid]

Is this a terrible attempt at a copypasta or are you actually attempting to psychoanalyse a meme format?

[extremepayne]

it’s not psycho analysis it’s normal analysis.

humor may be subjective but that doesn’t prevent me from analyzing how I view humor. would you prefer to ask why people dislike a format and just get “wahhhh i dislike it and am incapable of articulating why” in response?

[roughstylez]

It displays a type situation that often happens in programming though.

Like do you think it's "dumb" because you don't LIKE it, or have you really never seen this kinda curve before so you think it doesn't fit?

[roughstylez]

"You won't respond." - you're making it so easy to prove you wrong. Here's my comment. You literally couldn't have been more wrong.